By Tiernan Ray

There’s a line around the block, so to speak, of people at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas waiting to hear Samsung’s (SSNLF.PK) presentation to the Consumer Electronics Show, which gets underway at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern.

Samsung starts off the session with an appearance by Yahoo! (YHOO) executive in charge of interactive TV Patrick Barry. Barry shows off widgets that allow one to use the TV screen as a UI to surf through online channels. The feature is called “Internet@TV” and was developed with Yahoo! Samsung said the feature will be available on new LED-based LCD TVs coming out this year, the 7000 and the 8000, which contain both wired and WiFi Ethernet networking jacks.

Similarly, the company announced two new Blu-Ray disc players that can stream 12,000 movie titles from Netflix (NFLX) or from the Pandora download service. The players include wireless dongles that can be plugged into the USB port for WiFi networking, and wired Ethernet. The machines come with one gig of flash memory to play back special features on Blu-Ray disc titles.

Over at Cisco Systems’s (CSCO) presentation preceding Samsung, it was standing room only with people still being turned away. Someone said the room, meant to hold 150, had over 200 people in it. (For a discussion of today’s Cisco announcements, see Eric’s post this morning.)

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Tech Trader Daily is a blog on technology investing written by Barron’s veteran Tiernan Ray. The blog provides news, analysis and original reporting on events important to investors in software, hardware, the Internet, telecommunications and related fields. Comments and tips can be sent to: techtraderdaily@barrons.com.